A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureBell & Daldy, 1871 - 535 pages |
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... tone , even that of the liveliest joy ; but still it will always , in some indescribable way , bear traces of the source from which it originated . The feeling of the moderns is , upon the whole , more inward , their fancy more ...
... tone , even that of the liveliest joy ; but still it will always , in some indescribable way , bear traces of the source from which it originated . The feeling of the moderns is , upon the whole , more inward , their fancy more ...
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... tone and the ex- pression . But the gaps , which these conversations leave in the story , the narrator fills up in his own name with a description of the accompanying circumstances , and other particulars . The dramatic poet must ...
... tone and the ex- pression . But the gaps , which these conversations leave in the story , the narrator fills up in his own name with a description of the accompanying circumstances , and other particulars . The dramatic poet must ...
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... tone of voice , and ac- companied by appropriate action and gesture ; and that those external circumstances should be added which are necessary to give the hearers a clear idea of what is going forward . Moreover , these representatives ...
... tone of voice , and ac- companied by appropriate action and gesture ; and that those external circumstances should be added which are necessary to give the hearers a clear idea of what is going forward . Moreover , these representatives ...
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... tone of refined society which prevails in it . ( Oude ? ) is specially named as a seat of this art . Mahommedan rulers it naturally fell into decay : the national tongue was strange to them , Persian being the language of the court ...
... tone of refined society which prevails in it . ( Oude ? ) is specially named as a seat of this art . Mahommedan rulers it naturally fell into decay : the national tongue was strange to them , Persian being the language of the court ...
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... tones would be lost on the stage . The melting harmonica is not calculated to regulate the march of an army , and kindle its military enthusiasm . For this we must have piercing instruments , but above all a strongly - marked rhythm ...
... tones would be lost on the stage . The melting harmonica is not calculated to regulate the march of an army , and kindle its military enthusiasm . For this we must have piercing instruments , but above all a strongly - marked rhythm ...
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Page 350 - How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three years I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. — How long hast thou been a grave-maker? 1 Clo. Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our last King Hamlet o'ercame Fortinbras.
Page 251 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 398 - Say, there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean ; so, o'er that art Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Page 372 - This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit. 60 He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labour as a wise man's art.